I Married My Fiancé's Uncle novel · Chapter 28 of 32
Chapter 28: President
January second came, and nothing closed.
I spent it on a ladder inside Window Seven, hanging my reindeer back on their wires.
The sign on the paper still said they were at a party. Somebody on the sidewalk had written underneath it in marker: WELCOME HOME.
The developer's lawyers withdrew the lawsuit on the fifth.
On the sixth, a cashier's check for three hundred thousand dollars came to the windows account from Selby Home, with no note.
Bex framed the envelope.
On the seventh, the board met on the eleventh floor, without Priscilla and without Laurence.
Felix showed me the numbers at breakfast first.
"No silences," he said, and turned his laptop toward my eggs.
I'd learned to read them by now.
December was the best month Bancroft's had had in twenty-two years.
Foot traffic was up sixty percent. The tea room had sold out of everything twice a day. Toys had sold four thousand reindeer ornaments, and the ninth floor had sold every display bed from the blizzard.
"People keep asking for the one they slept on," Felix said. "By number."
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